ALTERED ONE DOLLAR CHIPS FROM ANOTHER CASINO TO LOOK LIKE $100 MARYLAND LIVE CHIPS. ASCENDANT MARIJUANA HEARING LEGISLATION -- A SENATE HEARING ON MARIJUANA LEGISLATION DREW A DIVERSE CROWD. 11 NEWS REPORTER DAVID COLLINS HAD A FRONT ROW SEAT AND JOINS US LIVE FROM ANNAPOLIS WITH THE VERY LATEST. DAVID? DESPITE THE IMPRESSIVE POLICE PRESENTS, YOU COULD NOT HELP BUT NOTICE THE ODOR OF HOT ON SOME OF THE SPECTATORS -- OF POT ON SOME OF THE SPECTATORS. SOME SAY WHAT IS THE RUSH? THE ISSUE NEEDS MORE STUDY. THE MARYLAND SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION MASTERS. THE LEGALIZATION OF MARIJUANA IS NOT THE ANSWER. THE CRÈME -- THE DECRIMINALIZATION OF MARIJUANA IS NOT THE ANSWER. SUPPORTERS LAME THAT TAXING POT WOULD GENERATE MILLIONS OF TAX DOLLARS. THEY WOULD SLAP FINES, NOT COPS, ON OFFENDERS. -- NOT CUFFS, ON OFFENDERS. THE IDEA THAT LESS VIOLENCE WOULD OCCUR IS AN UNPROVEN TALKING POINT. SOMEWHAT MORE STUDIES DONE BEFORE THE BILL IS PUSHED THROUGH. THEN WE CAN COME BACK AND HAVE A DISCUSSION BASED ON SCIENCE AND NOT ANECDOTAL ARGUMENTS FROM A BUNCH OF POTHEADS. THE UNMISTAKABLE ODOR OF CANNABIS CLUNG TO MANY IN THE THRONG. POLLS INDICATE STRONG PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR REGULATING AND TAXING POT. IS EVERYONE WAS -- IF EVERYONE WAS ALLOWED TO GROW THEIR OWN, IT IS ITS OWN INDUSTRY. FOR TEXTILES, EDIBLES, AND IT'S VERY HEALTHY FOR US. THE REPORTS AND ALL ARGUMENTS FOR EXTENDING THE MEDICAL MARIJUANA PROGRAM. SURELY MORE'S EIGHT-YEAR-OLD TWINS WOULD BENEFIT. THEY WOULD HAVE SUBSTANTIAL SEIZURE REDUCTION. DOCTORS COULD HAVE PRESCRIBED MARIJUANA FOR HER FOUR-YEAR-OLD SON GAVIN. EPILEPSY IS NOT A QUALIFYING CONDITION UNDER THE MARYLAND LAW. HE COULD HAVE HAD SEIZURE REDUCTION. WE COULD'VE HAD MORE QUALITY OF LIFE WITH HIM. HE COULD HAVE LIVED LONGER. THERE ARE SO MANY MARIJUANA BILLS BEFORE THE LEGISLATURE THIS YEAR THAT THE HOUSE SPEAKER CREATED A MARIJUANA TASK FORCE